12 December 2016 Have four weeks of vacation from work. Going to grow a beard. Have had quite the snowfall the other week, we actually had to bring out the snowblower. 8 September 2016 Returned to work this week, and funnily enough woke up feeling sick a bit yesterday. Appears to have bloomed into a full on cold or similar illness today: Sore throat, weariness, and runny nose. Great. 24 August 2016 Taking two weeks off of work. Started off pretty good with going to a friends wedding on Sunday. Have been taking the kids to go swimming daily. Working on converting our upper back slope slope into a more level area for plants. Removed quite a number of rotting landscape ties, and replaced with nice rock edging. Slowly over several days watched all of Stranger Things, it was quite good. Still whisling away at combining the Irish genealogical trees. Doing some checking on the internet, and seeing a number of introduced errors for other people trees. It doesn't help when all the various lines name their children the same name within a span of 5 years. 18 August 2016 Stalls, Stalls everywhere. Everyone should ensure when its really hot, that they check their vehicle fluid levels. Suffice to say, it was a very long drive home getting around the dozens of vehicles blocking traffic, or on the side of the road as visual distractions. 7 August 2016 Made Butter Chicken Poutine last night, and it was good. Pondering Genealogy quite a bit, as I think I have all the pieces, using both DNA records and various older records, to connect quite a number of families from the late 1700 and early 1800s. Only problem I'm now running into is that each line kept of using the same first names. Either I'll need to stare harder or try to find other historic land/lease/estate records from that period. 24 July 2016 Took several days vacation, and went with the family up to Rolley Lake. Had a new tent to try out, and it's been awhile since we'd gone camping (two years), due to me working during the summer and then right during our end summer vacation Nicole breaking her ankle (which is a healed as will likely ever be). Kids enjoyed the beach, and we tried out a Canoe for a little while, whereas my canoing technique isn't very good as the blisters on my hand can attest to. 15 July 2016 Just finished teaching these last 5 and a bit weeks. I'm thankful it's done, as during the week was teaching and then the weekends were catching up on sleep and doing yard and house work. Hoping next week will go into a slightly slower routine, with getting everything fixed up and ready for August training and then a work surge in September. 7 June 2016 It seems other things, primarily life, have gotten in the way of doing updates for the website. Even after just coming off of two weeks worth of vacation, and me now going to do 5 weeks worth of instruction. Should see about budgeting a minimal amount of time for updates every month. 24 January 2016 It's another year. Had a good vacation and now back to work. Workload has increased, thankfully have an assistant until the end of fiscal doing a lot of the front end stuff in the Warehouse. Came into a sick house on Friday, and by Saturday morning I was infected with a cold, which is on top of some sort of sinus infection.
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